The Unredeemed Captive by John Demos

The Unredeemed Captive by John Demos

The setting for this haunting and encyclopedically researched work of history is colonial Massachusetts, where English Puritans first endeavored to civilize a savage native populace. There, in February 1704, a French and Indian war party descended on the village of Deerfield, abducting a Puritan minister and his children. Although John Williams was eventually released, his daughter horrified the family by staying with her captors and marrying a Mohawk husband.Out of this incident, Bancroft Prize-winning historian John Devos has constructed a gripping narrative that opens a window into North America where English, French, and Native Americans faced one another across gulfs of culture and belief--and sometimes crossed over.

John Demos is Samuel Knight Professor of history at Yale University. He is the author of several histories of early America, including Entertaining Satan, which was awarded the Bancroft Prize in American History, and The Unredeemed Captive, which received the Francis Parkman and Ray Allen Billington prizes in American history and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He lives in Tyringham, Massachusetts.

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ISBN 13	9780679759614
ISBN 10	0679759611
Titel	The Unredeemed Captive
Autor	John Demos
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Random House USA Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	1995-03-28
Seitenanzahl	336
Preise	Winner of Francis Parkman Prize 1995, Short-listed for National Book Awards 1994, Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards 1994
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